How To Install img2pdf on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install img2pdf on Kali Linux. img2pdf is Lossless conversion of raster images to PDF

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install img2pdf on Kali Linux.

What is img2pdf

img2pdf is:

This program will take a list of raster images and produce a PDF file with the images embedded in it. JPEG and JPEG2000 images will be included without recompression. Raster images in other formats will be included with zip/flate encoding which usually leads to an increase in the resulting size because formats like png compress better than PDF which just zip/flate compresses the RGB data. As a result, this tool is able to losslessly wrap images into a PDF container with a quality to filesize ratio that is typically better (in case of JPEG and JPEG2000 images) or equal (in case of other formats) than that of existing tools.

This package contains the executable.

There are three methods to install img2pdf on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install img2pdf Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install img2pdf using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install img2pdf

Install img2pdf Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install img2pdf using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install img2pdf

Install img2pdf Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install img2pdf using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install img2pdf

How To Uninstall img2pdf on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the img2pdf package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove img2pdf

Uninstall img2pdf And Its Dependencies

To uninstall img2pdf and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove img2pdf

Remove img2pdf Configurations and Data

To remove img2pdf configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge img2pdf

Remove img2pdf configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove img2pdf configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge img2pdf

Dependencies

img2pdf have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install img2pdf package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.